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• Sita, Yet Again! | Pallavi Borgohain

  2 October 2020

  by Pallavi Borgohain
  It is a matter of sheer disappointment and repugnance that there has been no substantive discussion on issues like the abysmal GDP, unemployment and covid management etc in the electronic media but then I realize almost at the same time that maybe these are not the kind of issues that interest the citizens of this country any longer. But are not citizens supposed to be conscious about their rights and by extension of their violation? So is this a sign of the Bharatiya (…)

• Court can control publication of anti-people content on TV | Arun Srivastava

  2 October 2020

  by Arun Srivastava
  The Modi government is not averse to Supreme Court laying down guidelines for the digital media but is completely opposed to apex court laying down “any further guidelines’ for rest of mainstream media on the plea that there already exists sufficient framework and judicial pronouncements with regard to electronic media and print media. This plea of the Modi government is really incomprehensible that "if the court decides to undertake the exercise, it should first be (…)

• Why A Public-Spirited Lawyer Like Sudha Bhardwaj Who Protected Rights of the Poor is Under Attack | Bharat Dogra

  2 October 2020, by Bharat Dogra

  In recent months many socially committed lawyers committed to serving the poor and other people who stand for justice and human rights, in India as well as abroad, have been distressed at the imprisonment of a public-spirited lawyer Sudha Bhardwaj with a lifelong record of standing up for justice for the poor. Both as a socially committed lawyer and as a teacher of law and legal issues she emerged as an inspiration for young law students who wanted to help the poor and they have been very (…)

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  Understanding South Asian Revolutionary Bhagat Singh | Chaman Lal

  2 October 2020, by Chaman Lal

  Review Article
  by Chaman Lal*
  Chris Moffat, India’s Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and The Promise of Bhagat Singh, 2019, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Pages 282 Online ISBN: 9781108655194 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108655194
  Chris Moffat has been a British researcher doing research on Bhagat Singh since years and spent quite a lot of time in Delhi and Punjab on both sides of the Indo-Pak border. This book is result of his rigorously academic, scholarly (…)

• Requiem for a Decolonial Discourse: Revisiting Walter Mignolo in the Times of a Pandemic | Sruthi Kalyani

  2 October 2020

  by Sruthi Kalyani
  “The third kingdom is the kingdom of consequences. This is the kingdom where the three almighty powers show their true face. This is the layer the vast majority of people are able to see, even if with some difficulty. At present, this kingdom possesses two main landscapes where it shows itself at its most visible and most cruel: the scandalous concentration of wealth / extreme social inequality; the destruction of life on the planet / imminent ecological catastrophe. With (…)

• Confronting Major Crisis, Two International visions | Noam Chomsky

  2 October 2020

  Noam Chomsky keynote speech ‘on Internationalism’ to Progressive International inaugural summit, 18 September 2020

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  Video: Bearing witness to the Babri masjid demolition - Teesta Setalvad in conversation with Journalist Ruchira Gupta

  2 October 2020

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  1 October 2020

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  1 October 2020

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  [vert]Table of Contents - Mainstream, Sept 26 | Lockdown Edition 27 [/vert]

  25 September 2020

  Tabel of Contents - Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 41, New Delhi, September 26, 2020 Letter to the Readers - Mainstream, Sept 26 In memory of Mumbai’s Red Rose: Roza Deshpande’s death marks the end of an era of stalwarts who empowered the working class | Kumar Ketkar Document: AIKSCC Call For All India Bandh & Resistance Protests By Farmers On 25th September Document: Assault on Indian Parliament - bulldozing legislations violating procedures - Statement by the Communist Party of India (…)